Broad Reach's 200MW Battery Storage Plants Currently Online in Texas

• Broad Reach's very first two transmission-level projects, North Fork as well as Bat Cave, are on the internet and positioned in service with Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
• Each project is a 100-megawatt (MW)/ 100-megawatt-hour (MWh) greenfield battery storage resource situated in Central Texas.

Broad Reach Power LLC, an independent power producer based in Houston which possesses a 21-gigawatt (GW) portfolio of utility-scale wind, solar and energy storage power projects across the USA, has actually announced that its first 2 transmission-level projects, North Fork as well as Bat Cave, are on-line as well as placed in service with Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

Each project is a 100-megawatt (MW)/ 100-megawatt-hour (MWh) greenfield battery storage resource situated in Central Texas. Broad Reach now has 300 MW of dispatchable storage sources in ERCOT, improving the reliability of the ERCOT system.

"The need for new power generation in Texas, including wind as well as solar generation, is increasing. Battery storage is an essential part in supplying affordable, clean power, while additionally boosting Texas grid reliability. Bringing these 2 projects right into service advancements Broad Reach's dedication to creating essential energy facilities in Texas," stated Broad Reach Power Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer Steve Vavrik.

Last fall, the business introduced its strategy to invest more than $100 million in the North Fork and Bat Cave projects. Found in Mason and also Williamson Counties in Texas, the sites operate along with Broad Reach's increasing portfolio of utility-scale battery storage plants across Texas.

In September this year, Broad Reach revealed that it had bought a 118-megawatt-hour (MWh) energy storage devices from SYL Battery to sustain the Cascade Energy Storage project in Stockton, California.

Cascade is a 25-Megawatt (MW)/ 100-Megawatt-hour (MWh) front-of-the-meter project as well as is expected to attain business operation by the summer of 2022 to assist mitigate capacity shortages in California. Cascade was chosen by Pacific Gas & Electric to give resource adequacy under a 20-year contract checked in 2017. Broad Reach obtained the project in late 2020.

Broad Reach is backed by energy financiers EnCap Investments L.P., Yorktown Partners and Mercuria Energy. The company owns a considerable portfolio of utility-scale solar as well as energy storage power projects in Montana, California, Wyoming, Utah and also Texas which give energies, generators and clients accessibility to technological insight and devices for managing seller power risk so they can better match supply and need.